The Department is delighted to announce that Jeff Huang will
be joining its faculty as assistant professor beginning August 1, 2013.

Jeff’s research seeks to understand user interactions to
drive new applications at the intersection of human-computer interaction and
information retrieval. Jeff expects to receive his Ph.D. in Information Science
in June 2013 from the University of Washington at Seattle under the guidance of
Professor Susan Dumais. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Jeff is a 2012-2013 Facebook
Fellowship recipient and was a Google Research Award winner in 2012. He was a
CHI 2011 and CHI 2013 Best Paper Finalist and received the SIGIR 2010 Best
Paper Award.

“I'm thrilled to be joining the Computer Science department
at Brown and its community of amazing faculty, staff, and students,” said Jeff.
“I am honored to have the opportunity to teach and do research at Brown, and
cannot imagine a better place for my work. I look forward to collaborating with
a diverse set of people to address the challenges of human-centered computing.”

Professor David Laidlaw stated, “I'm very psyched that Jeff
will be joining us. He's a great addition to Brown's Computer Science
Department. I think that his work on how
humans and computers interact is going to become more and more important as
computers become more and more embedded in our lives.”

“I am delighted to welcome Jeff to Brown, said Chair Roberto
Tamassia. “His outstanding work is central to the department’s strategic
research area of human-centric computing.”